Don’t call Obama critics racists

Media pundits who dismiss anti-Obama criticism as white anxiety and racism are unfairly “attributing a single set of personality traits” to millions of people who happen to share the same age and race, says Matt Welch in Reason.

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I grew up in an area where blacks and whites intermingled and got along very well. I travel to locations where the same occurs. The BIG DEAL of all these issues baffles me. There’s no need to count the number of white or black TV shows. Maybe if you don’t use GPS and get lost on backwoods roads, you will come across some of these racists. They are there, let’s face facts. I am hoping Mr. Obama’s successor provides us with a REAL health insurance solution!

Based on the referenced article Matt Welch is guilty of the same sorts of things that he is complaining about. He is attributing a single set of flaws to an entire group of people. Much of the criticism that some anti-Obama criticism is motivated by racism is completely justified. Welch implies that none of it is justified. He only provides one real example of what he’s talking about, and that example was really a bad joke rather than an example of unfairness. He then provides one more “example”(about a paragraph long from the New Yorker) that he claims proves his point because the example doesn’t provide any data to prove its point, but then doesn’t provide any data of his own to prove that the passage is wrong. Based on the referenced article the guy’s a hypocrite or worse. There is a lot of data out there supporting the opinions in the passage Welch was referencing and there really wasn’t any need to include it in the passage. If Welch thought he had some data proving the passage was incorrect he should have supplied it. I think he didn’t provide it because there isn’t any.

@ Beedo,
You have “no use for a president…” who continually lies. You must not have had any use for any president since they all lie – ALL OF THEM.” The only difference is how often they lie and what they lie about. FDR lied about how much we were supporting the allies against the axis prior to our entry into WWII – GOOD FOR HIM. Obama lied about people possibly losing their insurance under ACA – GOOD FOR HIM – he had to counterbalance all the republican lies about the ACA. Bush II lied about the evidence against Iraq so the public would support going to war against Iraq – BUSH I IS A LYING TRAITOR.

once again, when the BO champion is criticized the leftist trolls have to drag Bush out of the closet.
Regardless of whether past presidents lied, the issue at hand is Beedo;s post that this president lied. He did lie, he admitted he lied, and according to press reports, conspired to lie on several occasions. Past presidents have faced impeachment because of their lies. Now, here is a question, is the reason that BO does not face impeachment is that there is a fear of being called racist to hold a minority race president accountable or is it using taunts of racism to even consider impeaching a president who has admitted he lied?

One’s race does not give an individual a license or carte-blanche to break the law. Obama is White,Black and Arab (and perhaps even Indonesian). Obama is a usurper,fraud and spy. All of his constituent racial parts are treasonous. Google: “There is NO ‘President’ Obama” and also see Laity v NY in SCOTUS at Docket # 13-875 seeking Obama’s removal from office on the grounds that he has usurped the Presidency,by fraud, during time of war.